Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.
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People's minds are overloaded with information.
I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.
Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.
If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.
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